Subject: Re: change to vfs_busy() and getnewvnode()
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/07/1999 18:26:10
> Would it work better to move to per-mount point hash tables? That way only
> one mount point would get constapated at a time. Or do we need to get the
> vnode and then lock the hash table?

Well, that still single-threads you on a per-filesystem basis; I
think we can do better.

Also, there appears to be a bit of a mess involving aliases for device
vnodes in getdevvp() which appears to cross filesystem boundaries.
(I must admit I don't understand that code...)

						- Bill